Fed: Sheikh takes out annual award for sexist comments

AAP General News (Australia)
08-12-2005
Fed: Sheikh takes out annual award for sexist comments

Sydney sheikh FEIZ MOHAMMAD has taken out this year's Gold Ernie for the most sexist
comments of the past 12 months.

The four hundred women attending the event at New South Wales Parliament House last
night decided that MOHAMMAD'S comments about rape victims deserved the award.

The sheikh told an audience at the Bankstown Town Hall in March that a rape victim
has no one to blame but herself if she appeals to the carnal nature of men by wearing
nothing but satanic skirts.

Author COLLEEN MCCULLOUGH won the Elaine, the award for a woman making a sexist remark,
for her comments on the Pitcairn Island rape trials.

She said it was Polynesian tradition to break their girls in at 12.

Other Ernie winners this year included federal Education Minister BRENDAN NELSON and
New South Wales Bar Association president IAN HARRISON, SC.

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KEYWORD: ERNIE (SYDNEY)

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